Reader's view: Schulz, Glenn raise money in different ways

Molly Morrissey

Published
7:00 am EDT, Saturday, August 25, 2018

To the editor:

On Aug. 1, the Midland Daily News reported on the campaign financials for the 98th District House race between Sarah Schulz and Annette Glenn. I’ve never considered looking at campaign financials in the past so I found the article very interesting.

The first thing I noticed was the fact that Glenn donated $15,000 of her own money to the campaign. Did you know that she and her husband moved here from Iowa specifically to be in the Michigan political scene? And they moved houses recently so both the Glenns could run for office at the same time.

It seems to me like they move houses and try to buy their way into politics.

The other thing I noticed was the sharp contrast between the $1,000 donation list. Almost all of the donations to Sarah’s campaign are from people that live right here in our district while $6,000 of Glenn’s donation came from the DeVos family.

Do we really want wealthy people with a clear agenda from outside of our district determining our representative?

Glenn also had 16 percent of her donations from PAC money while Sarah had one donation of $250 from a friend that gave through their PAC. Do we really want political action committees buying our elections?

Sarah had donations from 576 people while Glenn had donations from 99 people. That means Sarah is getting donations from many people that are giving smaller amounts instead of a few that have the money to give large donations.

Do we want a representative that only listens to the chosen few that have the means to make large donations or do want a representative like Sarah who will listen to everyone?